Beckenham Primary School

Independent Public School

386 Railway Parade Phone: 9458 4666 BECKENHAM WA 6107 www.beckenhamps.wa.edu.au

Absentee line only: 0409 687 220 Dear Parents / Carers

Shared Lunch

As part of Harmony Week the shared lunch will be held next Tuesday March 20th. A separate note

was sent home about this on Monday. If possible, please send your child with a reusable plate,

fork or spoon so it can be washed and sent home, We are trying to reduce the amount of waste we

produce so only a limited amount of disposable plates and cutlery will be available. All parents and

relatives are welcome to join their children for this event.

For Pre-primary and Kindergarten children the lunch starts at 12:30pm.

Times for other classes are shown below.

Year Room Time Serving Area 1 1 12:30 pm Rm 4 & 5 verandah

1 2 12:35 pm Rm 4 & 5 verandah

1 3 12:40 pm Rm 4 & 5 verandah

2 4 12:45 pm Rm 4 & 5 verandah

2 5 12:50 pm Rm 4 & 5 verandah

2 6 12:55 pm Rm 4 & 5 verandah

3 7 12:30 pm U/cover (kitchen end)

3 8 12:35 pm U/cover (kitchen end)

3 17 12:40 pm U/cover (kitchen end)

4 14 12:45 pm U/cover (kitchen end)

4 15 12:50 pm U/cover (kitchen end)

4 16 12:55 pm U/cover (kitchen end)

5 10 12:40 pm U/cover (verandah end)

5 11 12:45 pm U/cover (verandah end)

6 12 12:50 pm U/cover (verandah end)

6 13 12:55 pm U/cover (verandah end)

Student Councillors

Congratulations to all students who have been successful in being elected to the Student

Representative Council for Semester 1. They will be presented with their badges at our next formal

assembly on Friday March 23rd. A full list of councillors is in this newsletter.

Summer Carnival

On Wednesday students from Years 5 & 6 participated in the annual summer carnival playing

cricket, tee-ball and volleyball. Due to the forecast of rain, the carnival was shortened and despite

getting soaked at one point, the students had a great day doing very well in all sports. Mrs

Perhavec and Mr Fletcher reported that the behaviour and sportsmanship shown by our students

was exemplary. Well done to all participants.

Provision of Food

The school recognises the importance of good nutrition and how it contributes to student learning

and overall wellbeing. To this end we provide breakfast every morning for those students who have

not eaten at home. We are seeing a growth in the number of students requesting fruit and

sandwiches from the office at lunch and recess times. Sometimes this is because the student has

eaten his or her lunch at recess time but often it is because they have not brought food from home.

Please check that your child has adequate food for recess and lunch each day. Thank you.

Kind Regards

John Gillett

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DATES TO REMEMBER

Uniform Shop Friday 16th March 8.30-9.30am

School Banking Wednesday 21st March 8.15-9.15am

Techno Kids Thursday 22nd March 3.15-4.15pm

Subway Lunch Delivery Thursday 22nd March

Newsletter Thursday 22nd March

Year 6 Solar Challenge Thursday 22nd March

School Board Meeting Thursday 22nd March at 3.30pm in board room

Assembley Item Friday 23rd Room 6 presenting

WINNER – VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS

Congratulations to the De Castro family for winning the $30.00 credit voucher for paying Voluntary Contributions

by March 9th. You will have another opportunity to win again next term, just pay your Voluntary Contributions by

Friday June 9th 2018.We accept cash or eftpos.

ON SITE VISITS

Parents/Carers who wish to enter the school during school time need to let admin know that you are on site. For

various reasons we need to verify who is walking around the school. If we are not sure who you are, we will

proceed with a check on our system, this protects our students – who we have a

duty of care to and in the event of a lock down or fire then we need to know who is

onsite.

If you wish to bring a cake for your child to celebrate their birthday, please check

with your teacher first and arrange a suitable time for delivery. As we have many

students with food allergies please check with the class teacher if what you are

bringing does not conflict with their allergies. Please also provide napkins, candles

and plates as we have limited resources on site.

RING PULLS

Well done to Chelsea, Lara, Hailey and Kieran, for they amazing

effort and a bucket load of ring pulls. Thanks to the entire school

community for your contributions of ring pulls. We funded 7 wheel

chairs last year. Can we please do it again? Every ring pull

counts. You can drop them off before or after school in Room 6

and collect your Bestie.

HONOUR CERTIFICATE RECIPIENTS

ECUA Hayley Bekker & Jemerell Cocjin

ECUC Laithe Sullivan & Ella Rogers Room 2 Aria Pinkerton & Satthie Sabarikanth

Room 4 Baxter Hodgson & Ryder Gbaryou Room 6 Nina Codner & Stalynn Cung Bawi Lian

Room 7 Aiesha De Oliveira & Prathyush Gopalakrishnan

Room 10 Andjela Stankovic & Luke Marks Room 11 Chanul Thilakarathne & Daniella Doolan Pickett

Room 13 Dieon Dino & Grace Dalton Room 14 Matthew Midolo & Meril Martin

Room 16 Vanshika Sen & Lucas Hackett

SCHOOL BANKING

Calling for volunteers – we need your help!

Our students really enjoy participating in the Commonwealth Bank School Banking program and to keep this program running we need your help.

The program requires a volunteer School Banking Co-ordinator to facilitate the banking and distribution of School Banking rewards. This only takes a small amount of your time one day a week and the Commonwealth Bank will provide support in how to run the program. Your help with the program will greatly benefit students as they develop vital saving skills and also help our school with fundraising.

Currently, School Banking day is Wednesday.

If you are interested in volunteering for this great program, please fill in the tear off section below and return it to the red box outside of Admin or visit Esme on Wednesday’s at school banking.

Yes, I would like to help with School Banking!

Name: _____________________________________

Phone: _____________________________________

Email: ______________________________________

Availability: __________________________________

Beckenham Primary School will be having a Commonwealth Banking Co-Ordinator come to an Account Opening

Information Session morning. For anyone who has enquiries about School Banking or wants help opening an account

come to the P&C Room on Friday 16th March from 8.15 to 9am.

STUDENT COUNCILLORS

Room 1 Year 1 Talia Reale/Jasmina Porcic Room 2 Year 1 Harmony Cunningham/Satthie Sabarikanth Room 3 Year 2/3 Fatemah Sharifi / Christina Hran Ca Room 4 Year 1 Wyatt McGough/Cooper Hales Room 5 Year 2 Nora Ostermeyer/Ariana Zafrin Room 6 Year 2 Elijah Turner/Zakary Baker Room 7 Year 3 Kande Hset/Wayne Loo Room 10 Year 5 Elise Magnussen/Glenna Macayan Room 11 Year 5 Meena Ostermeyer/Daniella Doolan-Pickett Room 12 Year 5/6 Emma Kilgour/Diana Sabanagic Room 13 Year 6 Dylan Haynes/William Huang Room 14 Year 3 Imogen Lawrence/Chun Wong Room 15 Year 4 Isla-Rose Gray/Jessica Lu Room 16 Year 4 Brayden Nu/Kyle Tan

SOLAR CHALLENGE

The years 6’s from Rooms 12 and 13 had a great afternoon on Tuesday racing their solar cars. We had to use our battery packs due to the intermittent cloud cover. Congratulations to Team Lightening Strike Noah, Tony Aaron and Latrell who will represent Beckenham Primary next Thursday 22nd March in the Synergy Schools Solar Challenge at Rossmoyne High School. Thank you to Mr Gillett for being our starter and umpire. A big thank you to Sean Hunt for giving up your day to help us rejig our cars after the past weeks of investigating how to make our cars go faster. Thank you Sean for showing us how to put on our battery packs and being our finish judge. Thank you to those parents who came down to watch. Yvonne Hunt Science Teacher

YOUNG LEADERS DAY

Our Head Boy, Aswin and Head Girl Lana, together with ten student councillors from Years 4-6, attended Young

Leaders Day at the Convention and Exhibition Centre on March 9.

Our students were inspired by a number of speakers who shared their stories of courage, perseverance, belief

in self and the importance of inclusivity.

Cathy Hearman SRC Coordinator John Coutis inspired me to believe that I know what is right and what is wrong. It is my choice. It is important to let your family know how much you love them. Diana

YOUNG LEADERS DAY

My favourite speaker was Rick Ardon because he reminded me to always listen to your teachers and treat everyone how you want to be treated. He also said that if you make a mistake, admit to it, apologise and learn from it. Brayden What I liked best about Young Leaders Day was the silent disco because you could listen to the songs and dance. I liked all the speakers because they told me how to be a leader and gave me ideas for what we can do at our school. Isla-Rose

I learnt to be always conscious of other people’s feelings and to be inclusive. Never give up and always dream big dreams. Meena

The most exciting thing about Young Leaders Day was listening to famous people tell young leaders like myself how we can make changes to make the world a better place. I think we can decrease the amount of pollution that goes into the atmosphere by recycling things we don’t need. Aswin The student councillors would like to say thank you to Mrs Ostermeyer for giving up her time to assist and share

Young Leaders Day with us.

CAMPION DONATION

A big thank you to Campion Education for their kind donation of stationary items for our students in need.

Mrs R Toulwade School Chaplain

MRS PERHAVEC YOU’RE A WINNER !!!!

Mrs Perhavec was successful in winning these hats through a physed competition she entered. The Baggy Caps were worn by the cricket team at the Summer Carnival yesterday. Despite the weather, we all had a fantastic day and all teams played with a positive attitude and represented our school in a respectful manner. Well done to all our participants.

P&C NEWS

EASTER EGG RAFFLE

The Easter Egg raffle is drawing near, if you would like to purchase raffle tickets to be in the draw to win some fantastic prizes then complete the sheet on the red P&C box and place the correct money in the plastic sleeves provided. Good Luck to all. You can purchase a whole sheet, (25 tickets at $10.00 or 50 cents for 1 ticket). The last day for ticket sales is Monday March 26th. If you would like to donate Easter eggs, baskets or Easter toys to the P&C just drop them off in the office.

PIZZA LUNCH

The P&C are holding a pizza lunch on Friday 6th April. Orders must be back by Wednesday 4th April – no late orders accepted. A note will be sent home with your child soon.

HELPING HANDS BECKENHAM NEWS UPDATE

Dear Parents and Guardians,

The children remained engaged to a great extent in a variety of activities planned throughout this fortnight. There were some events organized to involve community in our program and celebrated some special festivals from different cultures. Here is the summary of it all.

Holi Festival: Holi (colour) festival was celebrated on 2nd March at our service with children. We did face painting and children got to choose their own designs and colour combinations. The children and staff had so much fun playing with colours.

RSPCA Incursion: on 13th March, we had a few visitors visiting us from RSPCA. The representatives Janet and Katrina brought a little friend called Hamish. It was a puppy and the children had a good time patting him. The children also watched a puppet show presented by both of the guests to teach us the things good and bad for our pets and how we can look after them in best possible way. All the children participated in this informative incursion quite actively. Spontaneous and structured activities which took place during this fortnight were old granny drama presented by some of the children, beading, loom bands, musical painting, gymnastics, group games, finding Wally and many more.

Harmony Day: we will be celebrating Harmony Day tomorrow at our service with families.

SOME OF OUR FUN MOMENTS...

For more information please contact the coordinator Pooja Saggar on 0478 398 270 or email

beckenham@helpinghandsnetwork.com.au